James Gurney

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A big exhibition of Martin Rico's landscapes is currently on exhibit at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas. With the help of the Prado museum, they have produced an excellent catalog, which fills a huge gap in scholarship on the artist.

The large softcover catalog measures 9.5 x 11 inches and weighs almost four pounds. It includes 243 well-reproduced images, mostly his paintings in color, along with some period photos and many pages from his pencil sketchbooks.

The text is well researched and includes an extensive biography organized by the artist’s granddaughter, Madame Claude Rico Robert. The book traces Rico's beginnings as a watercolorist, his time with the landscape painters Alexandre Calame (Switzerland) and Charles-François Daubigny (France), and his productive years in Andalucía and Venice.

In the back of the book is a record of sales, some of Rico's letters translated into English, and a bibliography.